Dan

He's a good talker and we saw this as a silver bullet to the mentality problem of 2022/23. It was another short-sighted and lazy move from our leaders.

£22.5mil release clause surely not. We paid about that for him!

Yep - the fact Ricardo is seen as the safe bet (and would probably be my pick too) despite his availability issues.

I can accept mistakes and genuinely with the way he actually ended up in position of owner I could probably accept them even more so than from someone else, so perhaps there was a bit of credit in the bank if you can call it that. I think if we had become maybe a steady PL club (which is a decline from what he inherited) you would probably say fair enough. But my god he's bad. There are errors you can forgive but it's the behaviours. I lost all faith in him when Rudkin and Whelan held their positions in May 2023 and knew what he was about. Knew we were basically nailed on for relegation and know that we're only going one way under him - unless we do get lucky with a manager. To an extent we did with Maresca, but he saw through it all and got an offer he couldn't really refuse. It sounds extreme to call everything rubbish all the time but the more time passes the more I think the fan treatment / contempt was always there beneath the surface and they were largely being distracted from by a good team at the time. Even stuff like the gold on kits - was dismissed by the majority on here and only called out by a select few and while that isn't the ultimate issue at the minute I think the red flags have always been there. Even now you have financial errors like the Coady signing (which numerous on here called as a poor value for money piece of business at the time) which not only do we look like we might fumble a rare bit of luck in terms of getting him gone, but there's talk at Rangers' end that we have a replacement lined up as well - Coady's performances have been poor but the biggest issue is the cost. We quite literally wouldn't have had any drop off if all of his minutes had gone to Nelson and we would have a lot more money in the bank. But when there is such a culture of unaccountability then don't be surprised when we replace the mistake in Coady with yet another mistake, probably eliminating all money saving. It's just such amateurish stuff and other clubs are getting smarter and smarter while we are at best, stagnant. I listened to a podcast the other day about Manchester United and I realised that us and them have real parallels. They're on a greater scale but they make similar errors - one thing flagged up was how bad they have been at selling unwanted players. We are the most similar thing to them just with smaller numbers. I would imagine United have this same institutional culture of delusion that it's all just magically going to get better for them. I actually think Amorim himself sees that it isn't that straight forward and that he's having to make some tough decisions to get things in order such as sidelining Rashford / Garnacho etc... but ultimately they have fallen because they aren't a smart club and smaller clubs are outthinking them. It's why I don't think we've stopped falling - why can't clubs like Norwich, West Brom etc... pass us? If this is our mindset? Aiyawatt has no excuse to be this bad. It's an attitude problem.

It would be quite on brand for us nowadays to give the captaincy to someone who pulled that nonsense last season. Really dislike the way this sort of disrespect seems to have become tolerated. A massive sign of weakness.

He's absolutely gone to bits as a player. Might need a move like a loan here to get back on track but no guarantees at all that it would work. It's a risk. I'm not expecting us to have a mammoth budget but if we can't get together something to buy a decent striker then what hope really is there for us.

Had a feeling this would be their replacement for him. Completely depressing but just accustomed to it at this point.

Might've gone if announced weeks ago - precisely why they didn't though.

Stupidly slow as ever. Probably an early red flag for him. Good luck Marti. Don't make me call you Russell Marti at any point in this tenure and you have probably done well.

Watch us go and turn that down and he ends up staying. A bit of luck for us here. Lets actually make it count.

It doesn't take an expert to judge how badly this has gone either. I think only Chansiri in the top two leagues is worse than this bloke and even with him you can make the case he hasn't quite overseen the same level of decline.

I've long accepted this. He however employs complete idiots, they're never accountable for their errors and even worse is when something good does happen he wants to be front and centre. So he can piss off frankly.

****ing knew this was coming

Somebody on here the other day, forget which thread made a post about Aiyawatt which was reasonably defensive but was actually quite a good argument - far better than the usual dross you get from Facebook and the KPFC Footsoldiers. One of them where you think maybe in some ways he isn't up to it and it was wrong to just automatically assume he was going to be. But then something like this sponsor situation happens. It's one thing doing it once, it was flagged up many times as completely unacceptable and ended up being a complete embarrassment as the 'company' went under less than half way into the season. To then so brazenly do the same thing again. It's where for me the sympathy you could possibly have had just dies. This isn't somebody a bit clueless and out of their depth - this is somebody I know for a fact even I (and plenty of others on here btw this isn't some dickswing) could do better than, and it isn't because I'm some business expert, it's simply because I have enough care to not drag the clubs name through the mud like this lot are happy to. We actively need these people out of the club. They are 100% bad for this club and nothing anybody says will change my mind.

That it simply can't be like this forever.

No matter how slow you've bargained for us to be we'll be even slower.

All sounds very on brand. Thought a while we'd actually do well to get Dyche.

As a gambling addict I'd imagine.

It's the same people with the same lack of accountability. Complete madness to expect anything other than the same results.

Some clubs do nice kits quite often. We're not one of them.

Precisely why they won't announce it. I'm not convinced it's accidental.

Jon Rudkin I believe his name is.

He's staggeringly bad for somebody who has been in enough of an environment to know better. I'm not expecting him to work miracles but he's inept to a level you can barely believe.

Doesn't bode well for Aluko does it - these links to left backs. Unless both Thomas and Kristiansen are going (doesn't look likely). Wasserman obviously. It's so dodgy.

This was an extremely predictable link.